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A battery of Britain's giant coastal-defence guns mounted on railway trucks.

Description: Poster is a color drawing of a large military gun mounted on a train truck. The gun is being fired, and similar guns are seen firing in the distance. Small figures of soldiers can be seen covering their ears. The background is a brightly colored yellow and orange sky.
Date: unknown
Creator: Davies, Roland.

Battleships of the Royal Navy, steaming in line ahead.

Description: Color poster of four battleships at sea. One appears closest at right, and three are in the background. Each ship has large guns or cannons that are firing. Three airplanes fly in the sky above the ships.
Date: unknown
Creator: Davies, Roland.

Catafighters.

Description: A series of 5 cm. boxes with drawings and captions below in rows of 4 across and 6 down. Drawings are comic book style with text explanations written below each box. The banner at the top has "RN" and "RAF" printed on either side of the title. Poster has red, black, and blue printing on white background.
Date: unknown
Creator: British Information Services.

Choose for victory : try a V dish to-day.

Description: Picture of a restaurant menu with a large orange "V" on it. A large black arrow marked "VICTORY DISH" points to the orange "V". At the bottom of the menu is the phrase, "Go Easy with Bread". The background behind the menu is green.
Date: unknown

Desert victory : the actual story of the rout of Rommel by the British Eighth Army : a full-length feature picture.

Description: Movie poster in brown and red tones, promoting the film, "Desert Victory". At the top is a close-up image of a portion of a typed document: "Directive to General Alexander, Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East" and photographs of Bernard Montgomery (left) and Harold Alexander (right) in uniform; along the left side are three photographs of wartime scenes; and at the lower right is an illustration of a battle scene.
Date: unknown

The development of self-government in British India.

Description: A chart showing the development of self-governance in India from 1861 to 1942. Indians are represented as blue figures and British are represented as black figures. Chart shows Indian participation in the Viceroy and Executive Council, the Legislature, and the Provincial Government (departments) as various laws were enacted.
Date: unknown

Every rivet a bullet : speed the ships.

Description: Black & white etching of large ship on wooden platforms. There is a British flag on front of the ship. There is a crane to the right of the ship. The title is printed in red at the top of the poster and the subtitle is white in a black border at bottom.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lucas.

The signal is save.

Description: An image of four flying colorful signal flags is superimposed over a black and white photograph of a battleship on a green sea.
Date: unknown

Together.

Description: Seven servicemen of various ethnicities and nationalities (British colonies and Dominions) all stand at attention with rifles. The British flag waves in the background.
Date: unknown
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